Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

News about Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 27, 2015

Federal Reserve and Office of Comptroller of the Currency invite public to open meeting in Los Angeles on $3.4 billion merger of CIT Group and OneWest bank; hear many comments about banks investing in local communities, particularly from banks that got federal bailouts. MORE

Sep. 3, 2014

The industry has not applied margin requirements evenly across the system. The proposed rule aims to change that. MORE

Dec. 3, 2013

Editorial welcomes new rules issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency governing payday loans; calls on Federal Reserve to set similar rules for banks under its own purview. MORE

Nov. 12, 2013

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has adopted rules for how banks employ the groups sometimes called Wall Street’s “shadow regulators.” MORE

Aug. 27, 2013

Federal regulators are preparing separate enforcement actions and fines against JPMorgan Chase stemming from the way it collected overdue bills from consumers during the recession. MORE

Jul. 9, 2013

The proposal would increase the financial cushion banks must maintain to protect their assets in a crisis. MORE

May. 2, 2013

The nation’s biggest bank, which faces several federal investigations, was warned by energy regulators about “manipulative schemes” it used in two states. MORE

Apr. 3, 2013

Private consultants and federal regulators are facing a fresh round of scrutiny by the Government Accountability Office after botching a review of foreclosures. MORE

Sep. 15, 2012

Federal and state authorities, led by Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, are investigating a handful of major American banks for failing to monitor cash transactions in and out of their branches, lapse that may have enabled drug dealers and terrorists to launder tainted money; investigation had previously focused only on European banks. MORE

Jul. 28, 2012

Editorial welcomes vigorous opposition by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to a bill that would accelerate the growth of payday-style lenders who offer predatory loans that can carry interest rates of 400 percent or more; notes that bill would dangerously dilute the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. MORE

May. 26, 2012

More than a hundred observers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are embedded at JPMorgan Chase's Manhattan headquarters but none were assigned to the company's swelling chief investment office in the months before it disclosed a multibillion trading loss; bank successfully pushed back observers who wanted to examine the office, raising questions about the bank's influence over its regulators. MORE

Dec. 25, 2011

Gretchen Morgenson Fair Game observes new program from Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, intended to help homeowners caught in the mortgage crisis, has many moving parts and looks like more of the disappointing same; points out foreclosure experts see many flaws in program. MORE

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PLAN OF ATTACK That the New York attorney general's office may file civil charges against Ernst & Young, Lehman Brothers' outside auditor, is a bit unusual. White Collar Watch asks, is this the beginning of a wave of cases against former Lehman...

April 25, 2008, Friday

To the Editor: In ''Who's Watching Your Money?'' (Op-Ed, April 30), Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, argues that the Supreme Court decision in Watters v. Wachovia Bank leaves customers of national banks exposed to predatory...